Warthur
Hailing from Verona, Black Hole played a style which mingled two different 1980s revivals of 1970s musical styles - you had the Sabbath-worshipping stylings of classic doom metal, and you also had in the less heavy passages more than a sniff of the neo-prog approach of groups like Marillion. It's an odd blend, but somehow it works.
The album's production values are not top-flight, and in particular the vocals by Robert Measles suffer - which isn't helpful since Measles clearly isn't especially comfortable delivering vocals in English. This one blemish, however, is not enough to ruin what is a unique doom metal album which exhibits a musical approach different from anything I've heard before or since and yet at the same time, thanks to its influences, feels incredibly familiar.